Washington, March 25, 2004, (WAFA) - The A.N.S.W.E.R "Act Now to Stop War & End Racism" coalition described Israeli assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as a criminal act.... In a statement issued today, the coalition referred to the Israeli government plans to assault Palestinian people in the same fashion of attacking Lebanon.... "We regard this assassination as an indication that the Sharon government is preparing an all-out assault on the Palestinian people, much in the same context as the attack on Lebanon in June 1982" , the statement said.... The American coalition stated that the assassination of Sheikh Yassin was not only targeting one man but all the Palestinian people.... "The attack was not just on one man or on one group, but was an attack against the Palestinian people, just as Israel has terrorized and killed thousands of Palestinians in an effort to destroy all resistance to the occupation of Palestine" the statement added.... The coalition expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people condemning in the same time "Israeli attempts to subjugate the Palestinian people by destroying their homes, expropriating their land, assassinating their leaders, and placing them within the confines of an Apartheid wall and in exile"....